One of the world’s most rapidly flowing glaciers may have just set another record, and it’s not one not that bodes well for low-lying coastal cities and nations around the world, which are vulnerable to sea level rise. During the…Read more ›

Abstract The invasion of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) into the ocean is shifting the marine carbonate system such that saturation states of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) minerals are decreasing, and this is having a detrimental impact on early life stages of…Read more ›

Abstract Seabird population changes are good indicators of long-term and large-scale change in marine ecosystems, and important because of their many impacts on marine ecosystems. We assessed the population trend of the world’s monitored seabirds (1950–2010) by compiling a global…Read more ›

A Dutch court has ordered the government to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 25% by 2020, in a case environmentalists hope will set a precedent for other countries. Campaigners brought the case on behalf of almost 900 Dutch…Read more ›

After 10 years of negotiations, the United Nation’s (UN) Reducing carbon Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) program was finalized late Tuesday at the UN Climate negotiations in Bonn, Germany. The REDD+ program represents the largest global political and…Read more ›

Increased acidity linked to more calcium in shrimp shells and decreased shrimp transparency A new study by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego researchers reveals that more carbon dioxide in seawater could lead to more calcium in shrimp…Read more ›

More Than a Getaway Compliment: Oceans Reduce CO2 On June 8th, we celebrate World Oceans Day. It is an important occasion for everyone because oceans create many of the elements we need to survive. Everything from seafood delicacies to medicine…Read more ›

A hundred years from now, humans may remember 2014 as the year that we first learned that we may have irreversibly destabilized the great ice sheet of West Antarctica, and thus set in motion more than 10 feet of sea…Read more ›

Plagued by prolonged drought, California now has only enough water to get it through the next year, according to NASA. In an op-ed published Thursday by the Los Angeles Times, Jay Famiglietti, a senior water scientist at the NASA Jet…Read more ›

Is the rapid melting of the Arctic paying us back for our greenhouse gas emissions by messing with the jet stream — which carries weather through the northern hemisphere? And could that, in turn, explain recent breakouts of extremes all…Read more ›

UC Berkeley chemists have made a major leap forward in carbon-capture technology with a material that can efficiently remove carbon from the ambient air of a submarine as readily as from the polluted emissions of a coal-fired power plant. The…Read more ›

Don’t break out the Tabasco sauce to celebrate just yet, but oysters in Mobile Bay and other estuaries along the Gulf of Mexico are facing less danger from ocean acidification over the next few decades than bi-valve molluscs (oysters, clams,…Read more ›

Living plants have been generated from the fruit of a little arctic flower, the narrow-leafed campion, that died 32,000 years ago, a team of Russian scientists reports. The fruit was stored by an arctic ground squirrel in its burrow on…Read more ›

The coastal sea levels along the Northeast Coast of North America show significant year-to-year fluctuations in a general upward trend. The analysis of long-term tide gauge records identified an extreme sea-level rise (SLR) event during 2009–10. Within this 2-year period,…Read more ›

The rising acidity of the world’s oceans could devastate coastal communities around the United States over the next century, according to a new analysis. And because ocean acidification is exacerbated by other water quality problems such as agriculture and urban…Read more ›

Preface The signs of a warming planet are all around us: rising seas, melting ice sheets, record­ setting temperatures, with impacts cascading to ecosystems, humans, and our economy. At the root ofthe problem, anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere…Read more ›

Pioneering techniques that use satellites to monitor ocean acidification are set to revolutionise the way that marine biologists and climate scientists study the ocean. This new approach, that will be published on the 17 February 2015 in the journal Environmental…Read more ›

Before this century ends, the Southwest and Central Plains states are likely to shrivel under a decades-long megadrought worse than those that ended the Ancestral Pueblo civilization in the last millennia, a new study finds. Based on tree-ring records, scientists…Read more ›

You can’t fix the Earth with these geoengineering proposals, but you can sure make it worse. Some years ago, in the question-and-answer session after a lecture at the American Geophysical Union, I described certain geoengineering proposals as “barking mad.” The…Read more ›

A lawsuit against the federal Environmental Protection Agency over the impacts of ocean acidification on Oregon and Washington’s oysters and other sea life will get a hearing Thursday (Feb. 12) in Seattle. U.S. District Court Judge James Robart will hold…Read more ›

In 2007, the owners of Whiskey Creek oyster hatchery on the Oregon coast lost almost all of their larvae — and had no idea why. The only clue was that the larval die-offs often occurred during intense upwelling events, when…Read more ›

…and on Sunday, February 8, it will finally get the chance! Originally conceived in 1998 as the ‘Triana’ mission, by none-other than Al Gore himself, the satellite had an all-Earth-observing mission. The stream of images it provided would monitor the…Read more ›

As atmospheric CO2 levels rise, so too do those in the sea, leading to ocean acidification that outpaces that of any other time in tens of millions of years. Some effects of ocean acidification are imminent, like the fact that…Read more ›

Records of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere millions of years ago support current predictions on climate change, say scientists. Evidence from the last warm period in the Earth’s ancient past suggests the climate will respond as expected to rising CO2…Read more ›